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human. He wondered what would happen if Gunnarsson reached
Earth and there was still a society there. He imagined them
capturing SSCC technology and invading Azul, which caused him to
shudder at the thought. Bagatelle had a 100% commitment to the
safeguarding of Azul and the three moons. The federal government
had given special and immediate permission for the military to
outfit the Revolution with SSCC technology, but it was hastily
assembled. Gunnarsson was their lead engineer and was not there to
oversee implementation, and he already had a four-day lead on
them. Fortunately, the Revolution was built to facilitate the
installation of SSCC technology in space dock. Otherwise they could
have had a down time of at least a standard month.
    Bagatelle turned to his second in
command, Lt. Commander Alicia Vasquez, and over the comm gave the
order, "All hands on deck, prepare for side space
entry."
    The lt. commander nodded and slowly
pulled back a large lever on her control panel. The top of the
massive warship's midsection opened as huge, protective panels slid
back, allowing hook drive machinery to assume its place at the top
of the ship. Masses of tubing and pipes pushed up out the top of
Revolution's hull and lit up with a brilliant glow while the core
energized.
    As the glowing increased on the top of the ship, a rift in
side space tore open approximately 10 meters above the machinery.
Millions of individual, colorful energy strands wildly weaved
around and through each other, glimmering and racing, making the
rift look like a supernatural gash in the sky. Then, what appeared
to be a massive, backwards-facing spear littered with electronics
moved up and into the energy field. This was the hook dragging into
the side space field, eventually making a connection with the
proper current frequency. Within seconds the Revolution disappeared
from sight and screen. It was on its way to Earth.

Chapter 3 - Welcome to Earth
     
    Max calmed his nerves, set all flight
controls to automatic and was resting in his sleeping quarters. The
good thing about side space was that, as far as anyone knew, there
were no dangerous objects floating around, so he could relax and
enjoy the ride, the navigation being automated with the hook drive
and on-board computer systems. Once certain coordinates were
reached, the drive would disengage and the ship would drop to
normal space, decelerating to the velocity the craft was at when it
had initially entered into the rift.
    After getting up and going to the small
galley, he pushed a button on the food dispenser, causing a warm
cup of coffee to appear in the receiver tray. Max grabbed the
coffee and took a long sip, feeling the warm liquid course down
into his empty stomach, half settling it and half upsetting it with
the coffee's acidic constitution.
    He sat back on a crash couch, designed
for poor to tragic landings, but also used as a comfortable place
to relax, he looked over his nav charts he had printed out and
brought along on the journey. They were the last known land and
water configurations from Earth and had layouts of the entire
planet.
    Not knowing where to go, he
chose to land near the Urubamba River, in Peru, right at the base
of Machu Picchu, the namesake of his ship. He would then scan the
area for signs of human life, and if none existed then that would
be his base of operations. The first thing he would need to do was
to find a safe place to camouflage the Machu Picchu as it was more
than a certainty that Federation forces were pursuing him. He had
billions of possible landing sites in the South American continent alone, but the
high jungle, where the Urubamba flowed, would provide excellent
cover with its many valleys and ravines.
     
    Sol System, 2819
     
    After six standard days in transit, the
Machu Picchu dropped out of side space, halfway between the orbits
of Earth and Mars, the third and fourth planets in Sol system. Max
engaged the ship's fusion-ion drive for some serious